{"id":40541,"date":"2017-08-14T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40541"},"modified":"2017-08-14T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T05:59:17","slug":"curious-cat-emmy-causes-40000-damage-to-adelaide-house-after-starting-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/home-garden\/curious-cat-emmy-causes-40000-damage-to-adelaide-house-after-starting-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"Curious cat Emmy causes $40,000 damage to Adelaide house after starting fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Curious cat Emmy causes $40,000 damage to Adelaide house after starting fire<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Curious cat Emmy causes $40,000 damage to Adelaide house after starting fire:- IF the ancient proverb is true and cats do have nine lives, mischievous feline Emmy must have just seven chances left after escaping a Hillcrest house fire she started by stepping on the kitchen cooktop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Dubbed a \u201cvery cheeky cat\u201d by her owner Jordan Pana, eight-month-old Emmy won her first battle with death as a kitten when she became the sole survivor of her litter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Tuesday night Emmy won round two when, just minutes before the Earle St home became engulfed in flames, firefighters extinguished the blaze that she started by jumping on the ceramic cooktop, saving her life and capping damage to $40,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Passers-by called the MFS to the address just before 7pm after a smoke alarm had been activated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Mr Pana, 42, who lives at the home with his two sons, Amos, 16, and Oska, 13, said a neighbour alerted him to the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cI raced (home) and the firefighters got here within seconds, they busted in the house and put the fire out,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThey reckon if it had of burned for another three minutes the whole place would\u2019ve been up, we\u2019re very lucky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Initially emergency services didn\u2019t realise Emmy was inside the house because she was hiding under a TV cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Mr Pana said it took a while before he realised Emmy was the one to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cI remembered there was a couple of cereal boxes on the stove and then I put two and two together and figured she must\u2019ve got on the stove and turned it on and off it went,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cEmmy is a very cheeky cat. She\u2019s very curious and curiosity got the better of us.\u201d Cat starts house fire: \u2018Emmy\u2019 causes $40K in damages chasing cereal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Oldest son Amos said he was shocked by the incident but was relieved Emmy wasn\u2019t hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cShe\u2019s pretty little, she doesn\u2019t really know what she\u2019s doing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThe first thing I asked my dad when I got the call (was) \u2018is Emmy OK?\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cAnd she was hiding where I thought she was hiding, under the TV cabinet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/home\/pets\/curious-cat-emmy-causes-40000-damage-to-adelaide-house-after-starting-fire\/news story\/b5c8453e0889c07e1218fc6a60444ffc<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/home-garden\/curious-cat-emmy-causes-40000-damage-to-adelaide-house-after-starting-fire.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious cat Emmy causes $40,000 damage to Adelaide house after starting fire Curious cat Emmy causes $40,000 damage to Adelaide house after starting fire:- IF the ancient proverb is true and cats do have nine lives, mischievous feline Emmy must have just seven chances left after escaping a Hillcrest house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[939],"tags":[44943,44938,44942,44931,44941,44933,44939,44945,44936,44934],"class_list":["post-40541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-garden","tag-amos","tag-ancient-proverb","tag-ben-harvy","tag-curious-cat-emmy","tag-fire-chasing-cereal","tag-house-fire","tag-house-fire-chasing","tag-jordan-pana","tag-kitchen-cooktop","tag-mischievous-feline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}